The method used in estimating the proportion of people who will die if infected with the swine flu virus is inherently flawed, according to UK researchers. The present death rate estimate used in the UK and the US is 0.5 percent or that for every 1000 people infected, about 5 of them will die from [...]
It is widely said that the poor countries are hardest hit by the ill effects of climate change. The question now is: are they even aware of what climate change is all about? Do the supposed victims even know their tragedy?
According to authoritative estimates, ‘99 percent of the casualties linked to climate change occur in [...]
There have been other genocides apart from the one in Sudan. There had been systematic killing of populations in Germany, Cambodia, and Rwanda. The difference with the genocide in Darfur is that Omar al-Bashir, the perpetrator of the genocide, carries on his mockery of the justice system, ignores his arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and war crimes issues [...]
The latest outbreaks in several countries of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu, may just be the harbinger of an impending reality that disease is bound to be the century’s most daunting challenge. Malaria is also rampant in the world, as well as terrifying outbreaks of dengue fever that is said [...]
According to records, AIDS kills 3,000 people a week in Zimbabwe. One million Zimbabweans under 15 years are AIDS orphans. 140,000 children are directly affected. The disease is said to affect one in 10 adults in the country. In comparison, cholera has killed 4,000 people since August. These figures are an indication of how hyped [...]
A new unusual disease emerged in one of the most developed countries of the world.
In the light of candles, the sound of archaic typewriter distune the reality of Sweden. But there, hundreds of people were forced to live as they say in the past, away from all that means technology. They are called electro-sensitive.
“It is [...]